SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire
Chapter 152 - 152 152 The Way to Leave Passionate Paradise_1

Chapter 152: Chapter 152: The Way to Leave “Passionate Paradise”_1 Chapter 152: Chapter 152: The Way to Leave “Passionate Paradise”_1 “Hm?”

Colin’s interest piqued, he adjusted his posture and fixed his gaze on the other person, signaling the woman in combat attire to continue speaking.

“In theory, yes, but whether anyone has successfully escaped or not, I’m not sure. This has always been what Captain Gao is researching. However, it was only after his first encounter with an employee of the Bonfire Company here that he obtained some critical information and made a breakthrough.”

“Captain Gao has said that it’s impossible to leave ‘Script City’ directly, but escaping from ‘Passionate Paradise’ isn’t necessarily impossible…”

“What do you mean?” Colin asked, his voice laced with vague speculations yet unclear.

The woman in combat attire paused, lost in her thoughts for a few seconds before she continued:

“Since you are people from that company, you should be clearer than us that ‘Script City’ isn’t limited to a single ‘Passionate Paradise’. It has other instances too. We can’t directly leave ‘Passionate Paradise’, but we can reach other normal instances from there, and then leave from those normal instances.”

“Even if we can’t leave, staying in a normal instance is safer than here.”

What? There’s such a way?

Including Colin, everyone listening was stunned—they hadn’t realized this before.

But upon thinking it through…

It seemed like it might actually work?

Colin remembered that Miss Bunny had indeed mentioned that not all instances of “Script City” had gone out of control.

If they reached a normal instance, does it mean they could normally trigger the agreement to return to reality?

Colin uncrossed his legs and sat up straight: “What exactly should we do? Do you have any leads on this?”

“We have some. To send someone out, we must find a kind of rift, then use a ‘Reality Stabilization Device’ to widen it, and then we can leave through that…”

The woman briefly explained that rifts only exist in specific places and seem to occur because the world is damaged.

The “Reality Stabilization Device” can reduce the mysterious influences and restore normality, thus achieving the temporary effect of tearing open a “rift.”

Beyond that, she mentioned several requirements.

“Over the years, we’ve tried to send people out several times, but each time they come back. It was later discovered that once you die within ‘Passionate Paradise’, you’re considered a part of it, so you’d be forcibly returned if you went to another instance.”

“Moreover, using an incomplete ‘Book of Fate’ to approach the rift would encounter numerous dangers until death and rebirth occurred a good ten or eight times before it could be negated. And once you’re dead, you can’t leave…”

The woman’s smile was tinged with bitterness as she spoke: “That means, for someone like me, there’s no chance of leaving anymore.”

The pitfalls are really numerous…

Colin inwardly sighed and then asked: “Where’s the rift?”

Hearing this, the woman’s face showed a hint of strangeness and she didn’t answer immediately.

“What’s wrong?” Colin frowned.

“Nothing, it’s just that I just remembered, Captain Gao said there’s a good chance there’s more than one rift, but the only one we’ve found is located in the ‘Passionate Paradise’ of the normal region, not ‘Rain City’.”

“What?! In the normal ‘Passionate Paradise’?” Colin was stunned.

“Yes, if you want to leave ‘Rain City’, the only way is to kill yourself and then wait for the resurrection…” The woman didn’t finish her sentence, but her meaning was clear.

If you want to leave, you can only die, then resurrect.

But once you die, you become part of “Passionate Paradise,” and then even if you leave, you’ll be forcibly sent back.

That’s really messed up.

Of course, the woman also offered another plan, to find a new “rift.”

But that’s especially hard to find…

Because a “rift” doesn’t differ much from other places, it’s just that the anomaly index is lower, and compared to other areas, it’s like a flat surface that’s been torn open, so that’s why it’s called a rift.

The only one that was found happened by chance while hiding in it, unexpectedly discovered.

Over the years, they’ve organized many searches, but haven’t found any more.

“That’s troublesome…”

Colin rubbed his forehead with his hand and suddenly thought of something: “Do you remember what that rift looked like?”

The woman thought for a moment before speaking: “A restroom…”

“A restroom…”

Colin’s eyes narrowed slightly as he immediately thought of an item named “Sister in the Restroom” and thus had certain speculations about the locations of other rifts.

‘If nothing unexpected, that school actually has a rift, after all, the ‘Femme Fatale’ prop came from there. Unfortunately, it’s also in a normal area.’

‘Besides that, ‘Sister Strategy’ doesn’t point specifically to anything; the only thing I can rely on now is Yukionna…’

Thinking this, Colin signaled the woman bound hand and foot to stop talking and then found a corner. He raised his hand and in a voice too low for others to hear, he asked:

“Do you remember where you were originally?”

A chilling breath came through…

“In a cave midway up a mountain?”

A cold breath conveyed an affirmative response.

“Which mountain are you talking about?”

“A white mountain with falling snow, halfway up?”

“No, I mean, how do we get to that mountain, the specific location…”

“What? The specific location is just a mountain!”

“I’m saying, the way there, sigh, forget it, I’m really dumb, why am I even talking to an imbecile like you…”

Colin rubbed his forehead and did not waste time contemplating the situation, realizing that Yukionna probably had never descended the mountain and was rather dim-witted.

Asking her about the location of the mountain was truly like asking “What’s the name of Li’s winter-plum horse.”

Returning to his original seat, Colin continued to speak with the woman: “Then have you seen Snow Mountain, or perhaps a house that’s quite special?”

“I don’t know about a house, but as for Snow Mountain, I haven’t heard of it. At least none of us here have seen it…”

Troublesome… Colin shook his head. After asking several questions with no answers, he could only give up reluctantly and turned to ask another important question:

“Speaking of which, do you know the current situation of other Bonfire Company employees?”

If they could find them, maybe some had seen the Snow Mountain area…

“We’ve seen them, but by the time we encountered them, they had died more than once already.”

“And even after making contact with them, they would still die from various accidents, targeted, and now we haven’t seen them again. Compared to us, they seem to have received very special attention and have all disappeared.”

The woman conveyed a troubling piece of news to everyone.

Great… it looks like Mission Six: find and rescue more surviving employees who haven’t died yet is not worth considering anymore…

As for the note on Mission Six, “Never giving up on any potentially surviving employees has always been the principle since the company was established”—except for former employees.